A Swiss girl of Iraqi origin has failed to overturn a ban on wearing a headscarf while playing league basketball matches in Switzerland. Sura Al Shawk, 19, was last August told by the basketball association (ProBasket) that she was not allowed to play for her STV Luzern club with the head scarf. The association...
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Nine corssdressers from three Gulf countries were on Thursday sentenced to one month in prison. The verdict means that they will be released this week as they were arrested on New Year’s Eve in a disco in Manama and later charged with public debauchery and soliciting revelers. According to court documents, the nine defendants...
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The two founders of a charity set up to reward US troops who serve in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan are leaving Kuwait after a 16-year long campaign. Kuwait-based Lionel Gittens and his wife Sheila deeply thanked the local charities that have sponsored Operation Christmas (OPC), responsible for handing over 1.722 million individual gifts and providing...
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A prominent Bahraini intellectual who believes that culture is the last line of defense for the survival of Arabs, has warned that holding an Arab cultural summit would be “a humiliation for Arab minds” if it did not result in concrete achievements. “Honestly, if an Arab cultural summit is held merely to meet growing...
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